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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 11h

Remember when America and the Allies defeated fascism, in a world war, and celebrated it with victory parades?

That’s what "antifa" means.

Being antifascist is being American.

Never forget which side we're supposed to be on.

#antifa #antifascist

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 19h

5: Mississippi: 314%
4: Tennessee: 320%
3: Alaska: 346%
2: Wyoming: 382%
1: West Virginia: 387%

ALL are Republican led.

Why do Republicans want to harm the people they represent so badly?!

2/2 #govtshutdown #republicans #maga

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 19h

Top 10 states, per MSNBC, facing the highest projected premium increases if the Republicans are successful in killing the ACA tax credits:

10: North Dakota: 234%
9: South Dakota: 235%
8: Alabama: 285%
7: South Carolina: 285%
6: Texas: 289%

1/2 #healthcare #aca #govshutdown

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 22h

You can't hold the government hostage, light it on fire, and whine that people noticed you're the arsonist.

78% of Americans want the ACA tax credits extended.

Grow TFU and try reading the room.

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 22h

Republicans: shut down the government.

Also Republicans: "Why are people blaming us?!"

Then: "If Dems don’t give in, we'll just fire federal workers."

Let me hold your hand while I say this…

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 23h

Tomorrow: my deep dive into what happens if Trump invokes the Insurrection Act.

He’s sent troops to U.S. cities. The next move could be martial law in everything but name.

How we prepare — and fight back peacefully — goes live at 9 AM ET.

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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 1d

Reuters photographer Jonathan Ernst noticed that Bondi flipped open a file during the Senate hearing and he zoomed in.

Inside were her crib notes for attacking the senators.

The GOP now practicing Cliff's Notes Fascism

In other words, under oath Bondi was purely a performance.

Bondi senate hearing had a folder full of notes for attacking the senators

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 1d

@adriano-kalin.bsky.social is doing the work of documenting, with photography and words, what's going on in Chicago with the protests and the ICE invasion. I'm proud to support his Substack and this critical work: adrianokalin.substack.com

Please consider doing the same.

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 1d

Republicans caused the shutdown.

Democrats are trying to save healthcare for 22 million people.

And Republicans? They keep blocking the Epstein files to protect pedophiles.

Keep your eyes on where the real problem is.

#governmentshutdown

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 1d

Stephen Miller just said the President has "plenary power."

That means unlimited power. No checks. No balance.

This wasn't a mistake — it was a preview of the regime's endgame.

👉 pathfinderchronicles.com/p/stephen-mi...

Stephen Miller Just Claimed the President Can End Democracy

In a chilling CNN moment, Stephen Miller claimed the President has “plenary power” — a declaration of absolute authority and a roadmap to dictatorship.

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 2d

Not all Republicans are fascists —
but voting Republican now means supporting fascism.

Masked ICE raids, military-style policing, and propaganda from the top — this is what normalization looks like.

👉 pathfinderchronicles.com/p/not-all-re...

#Democracy #Fascism

Not All Republicans Are Fascists — But Every Republican Vote Supports Fascism

Trump’s expansion of ICE, masked raids, and Stephen Miller’s rhetoric reveal an unmistakable authoritarian shift. Here’s why voting Republican now means supporting fascism — and what you can do about ...

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 3d

Culture wars distract us while families struggle. What unites us are kitchen table issues: healthcare, safe schools, jobs, housing, childcare, and fair wages.

This is the message that wins.

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The Message That Wins

Culture wars keep Americans divided and distracted while costs rise and rights erode. From healthcare and jobs to safe schools and affordable childcare, here’s the message that can unite us and build ...

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 5d

BREAKING: The First Circuit rejects Trump's executive order seeking to end birthright citizenship. In the New Jersey-led multistate case, the appeals court, in a 100-page ruling, keeps the nationwide scope of the injunction blocking the EO in place. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Government now asks us to reverse the preliminary
injunctions in these cases. We see no reason to do so. The
Government is right that the Framers of the Citizenship Clause
sought to remove the stain of Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 U.S. 119
How.) 393 (1857), which shamefully denied United States
citizenship to "descendants of Africans who were imported into
this country, and sold as slaves," even when the descendants were born here. Id. at 403. But the Framers chose to accomplish that
just purpose in broad terms, as both the supreme Court in United
States . Wong Kim Ark, 169 U.S. 649 (1898), and Congress in
passing § 1401(a) have recognized. The Government is therefore
wrong to argue that the plaintiffs are not likely to succeed in
showing that the children that the EO covers are citizens of this
country at birth, just as the Government is wrong to argue that
various limits on our remedial power independently require us to
reverse the preliminary injunctions.?

The analysis that follows is necessarily lengthy, as we
must address the parties' numerous arguments in each of the cases
involved. But the length of our analysis should not be mistaken
for a sign that the fundamental question that these cases raise
about the scope of birthright citizenship is a difficult one.
•It
is not, which may explain why it has been more than a century since a branch of our government has made as concerted an effort as the
Executive Branch now makes to deny Americans their birthright.

Thus, it is no surprise that, when presented with even
more uncontroverted evidence by the State-Plaintiffs about the
need for an injunction of the current breadth, the District Court
again found that a narrower injunction would leave unremedied
"administrative and financial harms." We therefore decline to
conclude that the District Court has abused its discretion in
fashioning relief. See Philip Morris, Inc. v. Harshbarger, 159
F. 3d 670, 680 (1st Cir. 1998) (explaining that "[als a general
rule, a disappointed litigant cannot surface an objection to a preliminary injunction for the first time in an appellate venue"
because doing so deprives the district court of the opportunity to
"consider [the objection] and correct the injunction if necessary,
without the need for appeal" (quoting Zenon, 711 F.2d at 478)).

The "lessons of history" thus give us every reason to be
wary of now blessing this most recent effort to break with our
established tradition of recognizing birthright citizenship and to
make citizenship depend on the actions of one's parents rather
than -- in all but the rarest of circumstances -- the simple fact
of being born in the United States. United States v. Di Re, 332
U.S. 581, 595 (1948). Nor does the text of the Fourteenth
Amendment, which countermanded our most infamous attempt to break
with that tradition, permit us to bless this effort, any more than
does the Supreme Court's interpretation of that amendment in Wong
Kim Ark, the many related precedents that have followed it, or
Congress's 1952 statute writing that amendment's words in the U.S.
Code.
The District Court's order for entry of the preliminary
injunctions is affirmed in part, vacated in part, and remanded for
further consideration consistent with this decision.

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Michele E. Gwynn @micheleegwynn.bsky.social · 5d

George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 5d

It’s the Epstein files shutdown.

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 5d

Daily reminders:
- Illegal immigrants do NOT get free healthcare
- Republicans shut down the government and will kill tens of thousands by cutting healthcare
- Trans rights are human rights
- Release the Epstein files

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 6d

When the fascists come for you — your healthcare, your livelihood, and yes, even your guns — remember: you're the ones who put them in power.

You voted for this to happen to others, and to you and your loved ones.

2/2 #project2025

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 6d

I’d say "I told you so" to everyone who believed Trump when he claimed he didn't know about Project 2025 — and then went on to hire its authors into his administration.

Today he openly admits he knows all about it.

But you won’t get it, because you don’t want to.

1/2 #project2025

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 6d

When Trump says "Obamacare bad", what he means is, "I don't like anything Obama did and am super jelly of his accomplishments and how much people still love him, but I also have NO ALTERNATIVE HEALTHCARE PLAN that I've ever talked about other than 'concepts of a plan."

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 6d

Virginia is losing 3 rural hospitals due to the "One Big Beautiful Bill" Republicans voted into place.

This person is actively harming their fellow Virginias by "owning the libs".

virginiaindependentnews.com/health-care/...

Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 6d

This is complete and utter bullshit.

Russ Vought, a lead author of Project 2025, is on the record for wanting to "Put them in trauma", referring to the federal workforce.

He is taking a LOT of pleasure in this.

Also, this is a Republican shutdown. Full stop.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 6d

Johnson: "Russ does this reluctantly. He takes no pleasure in this. Russ has to sit down and decide which policies, personnel, & programs are essential & which are not. That's not a fun task and he's not enjoying that responsibility...if they keep the govt closed, it's gonna get more & more painful"

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Migrant Solidarity Mutual Aid @dcmigrantmutualaid.org · 7d

The @nytimes.com broke down how DC became a testing ground for ICE and their conclusions are exactly what organizers have been screaming about at the top of our lungs:

“One key to the strategy: ICE’s close partnership with both [MPD] and the U.S. Park Police.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/u...

How Washington Became a Testing Ground for ICE

www.nytimes.com

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 7d

Federal agents jumping out of unmarked vans and abducting peaceful protesters off the street is fascist and authoritarian.

There is no "we're heading there" my friends. WE ARE THERE! And have been for quite some time.

cmarmitage.substack.com/p/breaking-r...

BREAKING: Reports of Federal agents assaulting and abducting peaceful protesters in Portland, Oregon

Videos of federal agents in military gear near unmarked vehicles are flooding social media, jusr hours after President Trump told 800 generals he wants American cities to serve as "training grounds" f...

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 7d

Behind the shutdown fight: cuts to your healthcare to fund tax breaks for the rich. These bills are written to hide it.

I put together a plain-English guide so you can read them yourself.

👉 pathfinderchronicles.com/p/funding-bi...

#governmentshutdown #republicanshutdown

How to Read Funding Bills: The Truth About Healthcare Cuts

Congress hides healthcare cuts in funding bills to pay for tax breaks. Here’s a plain-English guide to read them and see what’s at stake.

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 8d

Worth the watch?!

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Robert Dempsey @robertdempsey.bsky.social · 8d

And as ALWAYS - Trans Rights Are Human Rights.

#TransRightsAreHumanRights